Not sure what category so put it here

Hi all,

Hope everyone is well I'm not really after responses just wanna share something but people can comment if they want.

So about a week ago I had a really bad day practically didn't get out of bed. I just felt so overwhelmed and broken didn't feel like anything was working out. My partner trying to think of the easiest way to explain depression to our 6 year old son told him that I had sad sickness.

Later he asked me why I was sad and so I explained to him that sad sickness is called depression and that when someone has depression they just get sad for no reason something they are just sad. He asked me if I was still sad and I told him that I was a little bit but being with him made me happy and that I would be okay and he left it at that and I thought that was it.

Today he comes home from school and came straight up to me gives me a cuddle and then asked if I still had sad sickness. Startled I explained that I will always have sad sickness but that doesn't mean I can be happy.

He got upset and said that he told his friend how I have sad sickness and that his friend said that his sister had sad sickness and that she got so sad that she died and he'd didn't want the sad sickness to do that to me.

So I told him that a long time ago I was so sad that i could have died but I then found out that he was in my tummy and I got happy because I had him. He seemed to be happy with that I had to promise him that i would tell him when I need cuddles to help make the sad sickness go away so I will stay with him